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Wben l\omeo Was ~ Selling your life insurance is an option to consider. .®m~w (isa JVler,ill Unveils.Nineteenth' Century IImerican Stage £ege·nd Charlotte Cushman Ahe was as famous as Madonna, as Charlotte Cushman was during her lifetime. ~talented as Sir Laurence Olivier and as Who would be a contemporary counter- much a Sapphic heartthrob as Jodie Foster! I part? am talking about none other than Charlotte LM: She was extraordinarily popular; when Cushman, the renowned 19th Century lesbian she died in 1876 she was arguably the most actress who wowed the world with her brilliant famous woman in the English-speaking world. performances of male roles in Shakespeare. After acting on two continents for forty years, Lisa Merrill recounts this extraordinary story in she had been seen by millions. And Cushman When Romeo Was a Woman (University of not only earned a fortune, she was at the cen- Michigan Press, 1999), her engaging and con- ter of some of the most famous and prestigious sistently enjoyable biography of Cushman and literary and social circles, friends with politi- the pivotal role she played in the development cians, nobility and acclaimed writers. I guess of lesbian cultural identity .. the closest contemporary corollaries today In a heroic act of scholarship and queer would be rock stars, so imagine a woman-a sleuthing, Lisa Merrill has undone the damage rather "butch" woman, in fact-with Madonna's As one of the oldest viatical settlement brokers, of decades of homophobic historians and international popularity, self promotional skill, claimed a key figure in queer history. I caught and mass appeal. Like Madonna, Charlotte we have the experience and knowledge to get you the highest up with Lisa Merrill recently in Columbus, only needed one name; the American newspa- Ohio, where I was performing and Lisa was pers raved about "Our Charlotte." As the first cash settlement possible. speaking (appropriately) at the Drag King American actress to be received so well in Conference. Sitting down to our BLT's in a Britain, particularly in Shakespearean roles, cheery buckeye diner, we chewed the fat Cushman was a source of pride to her country * One quick, simple application * No cost or obligation at any time about Charlotte Cushman, hidden histories, people who longed for cultural parity with gender and the Ohio spectacle of the largest Britain. But what was especially intriguing to Competitive bidding process among * * HIV and other serious illnesses Drag King confab ever! me is the range of women and men who were multiple funding sources apparently drawn to her power, especially in * Qualify up to 900 T-cells TM: What led you to write When Romeo cross-dressed roles like Romeo, one of her * Any size policy was a Woman? most famous roles. Although she was not the * Your settlement may be tax-free LM: I've always been interested in the impor- first female Romeo of her era, she was un- * All policy types considered, includ- tance of telling our stories as gay and lesbian doubtably the most successful. When Char- lotte Cushman and her sister, Susan, first ing some less than two years old * Confidentiality, now and always people and have been aware of how the absences and silences about our lives shape played Romeo and Juliet for British audiences us. When I discovered that Charlotte Cush- in 1845, the reviewer from the London Times man- America's first great actress-was the stated enthusiastically that "It is enough to say -------- most significant "breeches actress" in the nine- that the Romeo of Miss Cushman is far supe- -- BENEFITS rior to any Romeo that has been seen for --~ teenth century, I was immediately intrigued. - ... Then I found that Cushman left literally thou- years." Critics from the major London newspa- --,=;;:r'-' AMERICA sands of unpublished letters mostly written to pers found Cushman successful and believ- and from the women she loved, yet the histor- able as Romeo, not merely as a "female Celebrating 10 years as your advocate. ical record of her life seemed deliberately to Romeo." overlook, dismiss, silence, or trivialize her TM: Wasit unusual for women to play male achievements and the importance of women in roles? How did audiences respond to 800-777-8878 www.benefitsamerica.com her life. I wanted to go to the primary sources cross-dressing women on the stage? and reconsider her story. Or stories, I should LM: No, there was a convention in the 19th- century theater of women playing male roles, Member: Viatica I Association of America Benefits America NA, Inc. say. ' TM: As I read When Romeo Was a Woman, but unlike other women whose performances I was struck how phenomenally successful in men's tight breeches displayed more of their PAGE 9 PAGE B DECEMBER 10 - DECEMBER 16 1999 DECEMBER 10 - DECEMBER 16 1999 TIIII nsw Blll/llnnluBlI. BI.,i.',lIiJ;iI; II.UlilllI, .lIl1ullI WII female bodies to their audience than women's names, addressing her women lovers by pet- WBIIIII .lIl1w dress would reveal, Cushman did not "titillate" names, and often not dating letters, so, once I her male spectators.